Word: torning
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...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...
Moralist Moberly's thesis, first spelled out in a series of lectures at the University of Durham, is based on the fact that there are two current conceptions of responsibility and hence of moral judgment. The lawyer-moralist has one idea. The psychologist has another. And society is torn between them...
...after the Korean invasion. But Ike is, by implication, a strong Europe-First man and has yet to outline an Asian defense plan as concrete as Bob Taft's. Ike is a believer in the United Nations: "However halting its progress may be, however much its sessions are torn by the jeers and vetoes from one sector, [it] is a visible and working entity-substantial evidence of developing hopes and purposes, an earnest of better things to come...
Last week, still showing battle scars of blasted paint and torn canvas, the Assumption was back in Italy, where it will be restored and given its old place in Monte Cassino's reconstructed chapel...
...strife-torn Middle East, foreign newsmen work in the daily realization that they may be singed by the fires of nationalism. Last week, two of them were...